The THWUP blog

On Thursday 11 May we launched two brilliant new poetry collections – Louise Wallace's fourth book, This is a story about your mother, and Jane Arthur's second, Calamities! We were very pleased to hav … read more

This week we launched Joanna Cho's wonderful first poetry collection, People Person, at Unity Books Wellington. We launched alongside the jointly authored poetry collection Crude Common Denominator … read more

Last month we launched Sharron Came's debut book Peninsula, a book that might be called a story cycle, a set of interwoven stories, or even a novel in stories. Really it's an indescribable book, … read more

On Thursday 15 September we launched The Stupefying, a new poetry collection by Nick Ascroft, at the rowdy Hudson. Poet (and recent winner of the Best International First Collection from the La … read more

I could not be more honoured to have the chance to speak about someone who – as evidenced by the previous speeches – has not only made immense contributions to the study of political science over the … read more